Terms: stock, speculation, margin, SEC, dividend, bull/bear markets, foreclosure, unemployment, "volunteerism", Bonus Army, hobo, subsidy, The New Deal, "alphabet soup programs", FDIC, The Dust Bowl
Click below to see the Great Depression Power Point we used in class:
"If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end".
"No nation or individual has been able to squander itself into prosperity".
"Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die".
"It is a pardox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech.
Immediately on attainingpower each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own"
President Herbert Hoover Here are the lyrics to a 1920's pop song...."I'm in the market for you" by George Olsen I'll have to see my broker Find out what he can do. 'Cause I'm in the market for you. There won't be any joker, With margin I'm all through. 'Cause I want you outright it's true. You're going up, up, up, in my estimation. I want a thousand shares of your caresses too. We'll count the hugs and kisses, When dividends are due, 'Cause I'm in the market for you.
Hoover Dam Pics
Click here for a short video clip about the "Bonus Army".
Read an eyewitness account to the famous Bonus Army March of 1932. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/bonusarmy.htm
Click here to see some original photos of the Bonus Army Bonus Army
Note: The soldiers were to be paid $1 for everday served in the military stateside and $1.25 for everyday served overseas. A typical deployment overseas during WW1 was about 6 months to 1 year so you can do the math..... another great description of the Bonus Army here
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes: "Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement with out loss of essential form".
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little".
"We must be the great arsenal of democracy".
"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it".
"When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries everywhere is in danger".
Bonnie and Clyde before and after they were killled in Louisiana in 1934
Bonnie and Clyde car now! Thank you Caroline Juelke!
Brother can you spare a dime?
The end of the Great Depression. Did the New Deal work? Read what FDR's Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. thought:
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before
and it does not work.And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong … somebody else can
have my job. I want to see this country prosperous.
I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never
made good on our promises. …
I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when
we started. … And an enormous debt to boot."
Click below to see the Great Depression Power Point we used in class:
"If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end".
"No nation or individual has been able to squander itself into prosperity".
"Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die".
"It is a pardox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech.
Immediately on attainingpower each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own"
President Herbert HooverHere are the lyrics to a 1920's pop song...."I'm in the market for you" by George Olsen
I'll have to see my broker
Find out what he can do.
'Cause I'm in the market for you.
There won't be any joker,
With margin I'm all through.
'Cause I want you outright it's true.
You're going up, up, up, in my estimation.
I want a thousand shares of your caresses too.
We'll count the hugs and kisses,
When dividends are due,
'Cause I'm in the market for you.
Stock
Anti Hoover and Anti FDR Cartoons
The Hoover Dam 1931-1935
Hoover Dam Pics
Click here for a short video clip about the "Bonus Army".
Read an eyewitness account to the famous Bonus Army March of 1932.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/bonusarmy.htm
Click here to see some original photos of the Bonus Army Bonus Army
Note: The soldiers were to be paid $1 for everday served in the military stateside and $1.25 for everyday served overseas. A typical deployment overseas during WW1 was about 6 months to 1 year so you can do the math.....
another great description of the Bonus Army here
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes:
"Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by
changes in emphasis and arrangement with out loss of essential form".
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether
we provide enough for those who have too little".
"We must be the great arsenal of democracy".
"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it".
"When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries everywhere is in danger".
Go here for the introductory notes on FDR.
Listen to the first "Fireside Chat" given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in March, 1933.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrfirstfiresidechat.html
If interested, go here for more information on the Federal Reserve Banks
A "hobo" riding the rails
A "Hooverville":
Modern hobo signs:
New Deal Programs
The "Dirty Thirties" a natural disaster coincides with an economic one:
Click on the "black blizzard" photo to the right for more information on the Dust Bowl.
Go to this site for lots of photos taken during the Great Depression.
http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blyindexdepression.htm
Click on the photos of "Migrant Mother" below to get the real story!
"The Migrant Mother photo is the best example of the effect the Depression
had on the American people; true or false".
Read the account of one of the most famous photographs taken in American History- "Migrant Mother"
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/128_migm.html
A short introduction to one of our most famous fliers, Amelia Earhart!
Amelia Earhart Bio
Some 30's entertainment!
King Kong 1933 Bio
Marian Anderson
Bonnie and Clyde before and after they were killled in Louisiana in 1934
Bonnie and Clyde car now! Thank you Caroline Juelke!
Brother can you spare a dime?
The end of the Great Depression. Did the New Deal work? Read what FDR's Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. thought:
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before
and it does not work.And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong … somebody else can
have my job. I want to see this country prosperous.
I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never
made good on our promises. …
I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when
we started. … And an enormous debt to boot."
The Great Depression Test Review